by Caspar Bowes
BORDEAUXI have arrived in Bordeaux for a week of tasting the new vintage: 2016, a harvest that - by all reports - combines fabulous quality with a return to the sort of quantities that make Bordelais vignerons do little handstands of joy. One cannot mention Bordeaux these days withou…
"Every once in a while, when visiting a specific wine region, I taste so many good bottles that I find myself thinking I might just turn in my author's pen and start making wine…Most recently, this happened during my tastings of the 2012 Brunellos, when I tried one delicious example after ano…
Ballet, Not Body-BuildingWhat a lot of wine: the new cellar at Château Montrose Can you remember the days when Bordeaux was affordable? Barely. But do you recall when you last tasted claret that tasted like...well...claret: cool and savoury and sculp…
The annual tasting of the new releases from Bouchard Père et Fils is always a fascinating event combined, as it is, with a showing of the new vintage from the Chablis producer William Fèvre (both Bouchard and Fèvre being under the ownership of Champagne Henriot).I find that many…
N.B. I need a pretty instant response about these wines: by (very) early next week at the latest.Please let me know ASAP if they're of interest.On 12th December last year I attended a tasting in St James's. It's an annual invitation and one that one would find rather hard to rebuff, for deep in a su…
